Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:37:21 -0500 From: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.uit.net> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PPP problems Message-ID: <199709301837.NAA07381@bmccane.uit.net>
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Greetings, Sorry for the crosspost, but I thought I might not get hold of the right person without it. I did a make world, and kernel rebuild on Sep 20 using current, and everything worked just spiffy. On Sep 26, I replaced my old slow internal modem with a new fast PNP modem. This motherboard does not have PNP in the BIOS so I rebuilt the kernel with pnp installed. After rebooting, everything seemed to work ok, but my ps and other `kvm' related programs didn't work. So, not wanting to look foolish, I did the right thing, I did a `make world', and another kernel build and rebooted. Once again everything worked, until I went to eat dinner.... Okay, here's what I am seeing: I use kernel PPP for a full time connection to the InterNet My connection gets dropped every 5 hours by my ISP (shouldn't unlimited mean UNLIMITED!) Occasionally pppd does not recognize that the connection has dropped, and hangs there. If I kill -9 pppd, it becomes a Zombie (state in `ps' is SEs) I tried to change to iij-ppp, and it will not reconnect after it is disconnected (It doesn't recognize the disconnect). If I kill iij-ppp and restart it by hand, it is screwed up and still will not talk. If I run iij-ppp first, then kill it when the connection dies, I can connect with pppd (once). The only way to reconnect after that is to reboot. I tried my old modem, it has the same behaviour so it is not an incompatibility issue as I see it. When the PPP is screwed up, there is a noticable slow down of the system. But systat shows 90-95% idle. Logging in from another PC feels like I am doing telnet over a 9600 baud dialin line (I've done this, it sucks). My console is dead. It goes through the "Local package initialization", and then no more output goes to the screen. If I login blind, it succeeds, I verified this from a rlogin. help!!! brian BTW> I have already written a script to check out all the code as it was on 09/20/97, and will probably do this unless someone has some helpful suggestions.
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